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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Studio: Revolution Studios
Release Date: Dec 19, 2003
Running Time: 119 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, free-spirited, novice art history professor Katherine Watson begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College--which despite its academic reputation, is an environment where success is measured by 'how well' the students marry. Encouraging these women to strive for a more enlightened future, Watson challenges the administration and inspires her students to look beyond the image of what is, and consider the possibilities of what could be--contrary to popular belief.
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Katherine Ann Watson
Joan Brandwyn
Betty Warren
Giselle Levy
Nancy Abbey
Bill Dunbar
Tommy Donegal
Connie Baker
Amanda Armstrong
Susan Delacorte
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December 23, 2003
"Irritating" doesn't begin to describe Julia Roberts as Katherine, an art-history prof who arrives at Wellesley in 1953. She's in her prime and eager to teach Stepford girls to be fem-bots. Did she have access to the see-the-future machine that Ben Affleck invented in Paycheck? Smirky Katherine seems to know every step in the women's movement from the last fifty years.The girls are played by a who's who of young Hollywood womanhood -- Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal -- each given…
Mona Lisa Smile's estrogen-spiked 1953 rip-off of Dead Poet's Society is about as inspirational as paint-by-numbers artwork, but it doesn't even supply the nostalgic kitsch of the faddish craft. Story Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a novice professor from UCLA, lands a job in the art history department at Wellesley College in the fall of 1953, and she's thrilled at the prospect of educating some of the brightest young women in the country. But her lofty image of Wellesley quickly fizzles when…
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